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Re: How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to resolve a symlink's to its non-existing destination?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 20:17:43 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:07 PM Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How can I consistently resolve a symlink's destination, regardless of whether it exists?

You can read the target of a link with zstat:

    % zstat +link -LA link -- bar && typeset -p link
    typeset -a link=( foo )

You might have to do this recursively.

Roman.

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